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A. R. MOSLER April 17, 1928.

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Filed Dec. 1926 CUTOFFAT lie) AND N08 7 INVENTOR .;L ATTORNEYS Fatented Apr. 17, 1928 UN TATES PATENT-j ARTHUR RQ MosLER, on NEW YORK, N. x.

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- Applicationflled December 7, 1926. S eria1No.i153,071,

The object of my invention is to provide abox for holding a supply of clamp parts in convenient position for use. My improved box includes, among other features, a compartment containing a clamp band sup-.

ply roll and a compartment containing a supply of clamp buckles, and their operating bar band winding keys My box also may be provided with markings whereby the desired band lengthsfor use in connection with articles of various sizes nay be withdrawn and severed from the roll, leaving a sufficient amount of exposed end portion'to be folded over a porf 15 tion of the buckle to be used therewith.

' A practical embodiment of my invention is represented in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig.1 represents my box in top plan,.portions'of the cover and partition being broken m away to exposethe parts beneath the same.

Fig. 2 represents the box in side elevation. Fig. 3 represents the box in vertical central section taken in the plane of the line IIIIII of Fig. 1, looking in the direction of the arrows.

The box is shown as comprising a cylin drical body portion and a removable cover, the body portion being divided by a horizontal removable partition into a lower com partment for the clamp band supply roll 1 and an upper compartment for theother clamp parts comprising the clamp buckles 2, the winding keys 3 and their operating bars 4.

The body portion of the box has a substantially flat bottom 5 and uprising sides 6, while the cover is shown as having a substantially flat top '7 and depending sides '8 which overlap the uprising sides 6 of the body portion. 7 V r g Y A vertically elongated slot 9 is formedin' the uprising Sides 6 of the bottom, through which slot the free end of the rollband is drawn for subsequent severance into lengths to be used with the buckles to form the clamp'for hose or other articles. The walls 'of the slotare shaped to permit the withter, which markings in the present instance drawal of the clamp band along a line substantially tangential to the roll for preventing unintentional distortion of the band.

The box may bear markings denoted as a whole by 10, indicating how great a band 1 lengthis required for wrapping and clampp ing a cylindrical 'article'of a certain diame parts as it becomes necessary. I

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are shown on the exterior of the cover to p 7i The container. also has calibrations 11 (in the presentinstance in inches)" around the exterior of its sides for use in'measuring ofi lengths of 'bandfrequi-red, said calibrations beginningat a certain distance spaced from the slot 9 to indicate where the, band i's to be severed for leaving the required amount of'exposed end to be folded over the next succeeding buckle.

The uprising sides 6 of the body portion are distorted outwardly to forman exterior circumferential rib 12 and corresponding inner circumferential groove 13, the rib ,12

. in the presentinstance serving as a stop for the depending sides 8 of the cover The partition which divide s'the box into upper and lower compartments is shown as a removable tray 14. To prevent the unintentional removal of the clamp roll 1 when the tray is removed, I-provide a retaining member in the form of a flat spring bar 15, the opposite ends of which. are snapped into the circumferential grooved?) at diametrically opposite points." A new 'band supply roll may be inserted by removing the cover, the tray and the retaining member15. The procedure for making a clamp is as of the roll band with its buckle is drawn out wardly through the slot 9 along a line substantially tangential to the roll and wrapped around the sides of the box to measurethe length required for use in clamping an article of a predetermined circumference.

When a suflicient length of band has been it withdrawn, the band is severed at the zero mark of'the calibrations, thus leaving a suf ficient amount of the free en'dof the band exposed for permitting it to be folded over the next buckle to be used, said bucklebeing taken from the supply inthe upper compartment of the box. 7

It will thus be seen that I have provided a box which will keep the clamp supply parts together so thata clamp maybe 'quick- I ly made of the desired length, said box be- .85 follows :r The doubled' -overifree exposed end band may be withdrawn, and a removable 1 tray forming a partition for dividing the interior of the box into a compartment for the band roll and a compartment for the other supply parts.

2. A box for containing clamp supply parts including a clamp band roll, the sides of the box having a slot through which the band may be Withdrawn, a removable tray forming a partition for dividing the interior of the box into a compartment for the band roll and a compartment for the other supply parts, and a removable member engaging the box'for retaining the band roll in position Within the box against unintentional removal therefrom.

3. A box for containing clamp supply parts, including a clamp band roll, the sides of the box having a slot through Which the band may be Withdrawn, a removable tray forming a partition for'dividing the interior of the box into a compartment for the band roll and a compartment for the other supply parts, the sides of the box having an inner circumferential groove, and a removable fiat spring extending across the box and having its ends snapped into said groove for retaining the band roll in position Within the box against unintentional removal therefrom.

In testimony, that I claim the foregoing as my invention, I have signed my name this 2nd day of December, 1926.

ARTHUR R. MOSLER. 

